Hat-fastener



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ROBERT CARL FRITZ, OF KASSEL, GERMANY, ASSIGNOR TO FIRM y0F INVENIT,.

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HAT-FASTENER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 3, 1921.

Application led September 18, V1920.v Serial No. l411,310.

To all ywhom t may concern.' Y

Be it known that I, ROBERT Gann FRITZ, a citizen of the German Republidand residing at Kassel, Germany,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in I-Iat- Fasteners, of which the following is a specifcation.

This invention relates to an improved hat fastener of the type in which a seniicircularly curved pin, with a turnable handle, can be turned out of a casing, which is fixed in the hat, the pin catching part of the hair dressed and thus fastening the hat. Such hat fasteners have the drawbacks that the pin has no reliable guiding, while the attachment of the fastener to the hat and the connection of the handle with the pin are not appropriate. Said drawbacks resulted in a sticking and clamping of the pin and in damages to the hair dressed, the fastener becoming moreover useless after a certain time.

The present invention provides improved means by which said drawbacks are avoided. According to the present invention, the pin is reliably guided and, besides, locked in its end positions, the hair dressed being thereby prevented from becoming undone. The iniproved hat fastener can be easily and securely attached to the hat its proper position therein being determined by the fastener itself, while the handle, though detachable, can be easily and securely held with a slight pressure on the pin an unintended loosening of the same being impossible. j

The acjcoinpanying drawing shows/the improved hat fastener.

Figures 1 and 2 are respectively a front elevation, partly broken away, and a crosssection, of the saine, as attached to the inside of a ladys hat, in its inoperative position; Fig. 3 is a front elevation of the same in its operative position; Fig. 1 is a rear view, and 5 a cross-section of the casing; Fig. 6 shows the handle with the accessory part of the fastener; Fig. 7 is a section through the handle with a spring belonging thereto.

In a closed casing a av semicircularly curved pin Z) is so inserted that it issues from the same with its angularly bent free end 0. Said projecting end c is flat and recessed at CZ at its pointed end t (Fig. 6). The handle engaging said projecting end c consists of a short flat shell e and a round hollow knob f, in an inner recess z' of which a spring g' is inserted (Fig. 7 ),v which is to engage in said recess l when the handleis put over the end 0, the handle being thus held on the latter with a slight pressure.

In a cavity in the inner wall of the casing a, a blade spring m is riveted at Z (Figs. 4 and 5), the latter having at its free Vend a transverse depression n and a recess o, the latter serving for a passage of the end C therethrough.,

The inner wall of the casing carries further a springy holder p, which is riveted thereto at s (Fig. 2) and which below terminates in a long foot u having sewing-holes g and above in a short extension having a sewing-hole 1".

For its use, the fastener is, from inside the hat, so pushed with its pointed end c through the wall of the hat that its foot u is flush with the brim of the hat, the holder 79 being then sewn to the hat at g and r.

The foot u determines thus the position of i the fastener within the hat. The handle e, f is then put on the projecting end c until its inner spring g engages in the recess d of the latter, whereby the handle is immovably attached thereto. The end c and shell e being flat, the handle cannot turn thereon.

For fastening the hat to the hair dressed, the handle is turned for 180 in' which movement participates the pin Y), so that the same is, through an opening in the casing provided for this purpose, turned out of the casing into the position shown in Fig. 3, the pin catching thereby part of the hair dressed.

By the casing a being attached to the holder p at the point s only, the casing w can, by a. slight pressure on the handle c, 7", be more or less pressed toward the hair dressed, so as to catch more or less hair dressed by means of the pin I).

The transverse depression n, in the blade spring m serves to lock the pin in its two end positions, by the pin engaging therein in said positions.

What I claim, is

1. In a hat fastener, in combination, a closed casing having a cavity in its rear wall, a semicircularly curved pin movably located in said casing, an angularly bent at end and a blade spring fixed in the cavity of said casing and having a transverse depression on its end for engagement with said pin in its two end positions, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

2. In a hat fastener, in combination, a closed casing having a cavity in its rear wall, a semicircularly curved pinmovably located in said casing, an angularly bent flat end on said pin projecting from said casing, a detachable handle on said end,

means to hold the latter thereony with a slight pressure, a blade spring Xed inthe cavity of said casing and having a transverse depression on its end for engagement with 15 said pin in its two end positions, and a springy holder attached at its upper end to the rear wall of said casing and having a long foot part and sewing-ho1es in its upper and lower ends, substantially as and Jfor the 20 purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two subscribing 

